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Simulating the Entire US Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with Full-Stack Analytics

With the rising needs associated with COVID-19, the challenges of the commercial drug supply chain is more evident than ever. This article features an innovative and progressive technology that uses blockchain to solve the ongoing problem with the drug distribution chain.

Kelverion: Optimizing Runbook Performance

By default, each Orchestrator Runbook Server is configured to simultaneously run a maximum of 50 runbooks. This is to control the CPU and Memory load placed on the Orchestrator Runbook Server by executing Runbooks. You can change this number by using the Runbook Server Runbook Throttling tool. In most cases, you can increase the default setting. If Orchestrator has a number of Runbooks with high CPU or Memory resource requirements, you might run fewer Runbooks simultaneously.

Kelverion: How Automation Closes the Patching Gap

Monthly patch deployments of software and security updates can be a costly, time consuming, and unreliable process, leaving companies with huge security and compliance issues. Many tasks are repeated monthly and it is up to the SCCM Administrator to ensure that devices are patched correctly and working. When the Admin is looking after a large estate or multiple customers, the patching process often becomes an unwieldy full-time job fraught with failure gaps.

Elastic: Introduction to Elastic SIEM and EDR

Elastic Security arms analysts to prevent, detect, and respond to threats. It unifies SIEM and Endpoint Security, enabling SecOps teams to collect diverse data, perform both automated and analyst-driven analysis, and respond to security threats via embedded workflows and automations. Built-in security expertise from Elastic and the community enables the SecOps team to defend against well-resourced adversaries targeting the org's data or infrastructure.

Automating serverless workflows with Amazon EventBridge

Event-driven applications have become the foundation for developing modern digital applications. Application workflows are easier to automate with serverless frameworks, and Amazon EventBridge has revolutionized the way serverless applications are built. Since serverless is the new cool kid in the town, there has been a lot of infrastructure reengineering. This blog describes how alert-driven business logic can automate serverless workflows using Amazon EventBridge.

Migrating Grafana's template variables from AngularJS to React: A tale of failures and wins

As many of you already know, we created Grafana using AngularJS, but we have been migrating to React for about two years now. One of the big missing pieces in our migration puzzle was the templating system. This post starts in late 2019 when I first got my hands on this mysterious and complex area of the Grafana code base.

Self-Hosted Sentry switching to CalVer

Since the beginning, Sentry has adopted SemVer (semantic versioning) for all of its open source releases — major versions indicated breaking, backward-incompatible changes; minor versions meant new features, and patch releases were bug fixes only. This process worked fine for a long time. As the open source project evolved and grew into Sentry.io – our SaaS offering – the development team switched to a continuous delivery model.

Introducing Pub/Sub as a new notification channel in Cloud Monitoring

Around the world, operations teams are working to automate their monitoring and alerting workflows, looking to reduce the time they spend on rote operational work (what we call “toil”), so they can spend more time on valuable work. For instance, Google’s Site Reliability Engineering organization aims to keep toil below 50% of an SRE’s time, freeing them up to work on more impactful engineering projects.

Aggregating and Visualizing Data with Kusto

Got the basics down and ready to move on to more advanced aspects of Kusto? You’ve come to the right place! Here you will learn how to use aggregation functions, visualize query results and put your data into context. If you’re just getting started with Kusto, check out our ‘Jumpstart Guide to Kusto’ before starting on this one. Let’s get into it!